From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 16 20:04:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA08432 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA08407 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (scanner@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA27846 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:04:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Scanner To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: BSDcon Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk *** B S D - C O N *** Who/What: BSDNET(1) is proud to announce the first annual BSDcon convention. Held this year in Virginia. BSDcon is going to be a yearly convention to promote, discuss, and trade ideas and code about FREE *BSD unix. Everyone has there own conference, SA's, Geeks, even the L**** people have them. Now the founding OS of unix, needs to take advances in PR, and promoting *BSD unix. So we wind up with BSDcon. When: October 26th and 27th. The weekend before halloween. 1996. Where: Hotel soon to be announced. Why: To promote the use of FREE *BSD unix, and to actually start spreading FACTUAL information about *BSD unix, and about performance and architecture issues that the other free unix camps can't seem to stick to. Topics to be discussed are coming soon. This is just a pre-amble to the official release of BSDcon information. This is just to get people to clear their calandar for the above date :) Those of you wishing more information before I get around to releasing the OFFICIAL announcment later on, wanting to know about speakers, topics, etc.. can email me at bsdcon@webspan.net for further pre release information. I hope everyone plans on attending! It is going to be very informative, and everyone is going to have a blast! Official release is soon to come. Scanner@webspan.net 1 - http://www.bsdnet.org -- ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net http://www.freebsd.org | SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Security ===================================| Member BSDNET team! http://www.bsdnet.org